MINIMALIST LIVING ROOM DESIGN - In preparation for the Holidays it’s important to get your home organized but to also keep an element of coziness to it, because there is nothing better than snuggling up on the couch after a long dinner party with a full stomach and a warm blanket! Here are some ideas I brought to my living room to achieve this minimalist but welcoming look.

1. Clean up the clutter on your coffee table. I love a tray {like this Raffia one from West Elm} with just a few accent pieces like a Jonathan Adler match striker, a Michael Aram candle, a Mackenzie-Childsmagnifying glass, and a cute dish. Notice how I placed everything with a bit of space in between so you can see the pretty raffia. Once you lose site of the tray beneath you know you have too much clutter.

2. On to my couch. I was on the hunt for some really comfy grey and neutral pillows and I ended up loving one from Safavieh and this one from West Elm. Mixing prints is totally on trend right now as long as they are in the same color family, so have a blast mixing and matching prints and textures. Not sure of which ones to go with? Check out this FH post for fab recommendations or see the bottom of this post to shop some other neutral options.

3. Rather than having throw blankets out on the couch, which can look disorganized and messy if not folded properly, fold them up into a wicker basket {like this one} and place alongside or below your side table. Anything chenille material is my absolute favorite in the winter. Just keep in mind that the colors should be complimentary to your couch and coordinating pillows, so say goodbye that bright yellow smiley face pillow you got from your camp retreat!

4. Simplify your coffee table.  While I usually love a lot of little vases and candles covering my side tables, it’s best to keep things clean and simple during the Holiday time {translation: easier cleaning!}. I swapped my small votives for larger accent pieces like beautiful bulky candle sticks, a lantern, and a small tray. Again, I like that it looks sparse! 

5. Then it’s time to enjoy! Snuggle up on the couch with ones you love. The FHB seems pretty pleased with the outcome! LIVING ROOM

Elegance (Only) Looks Easy 

Elegant living rooms display fine design without appearing flashy. And it’s harder than it sounds. This living room in the home of Washington, D.C., designer Skip Sroka reaches the pinnacle of elegant traditional design with gentle curves on the window treatments and furniture. Both chairs and the sofa have beautifully rolled arms as well as subtle curves at the back. The windows are adorned with curved Roman shades in a damask tone-on-tone that underlie simple pleated silk panels. All together, the curves convey a shapely beauty that ties the room together. This is the essence of soft decorating.  The coffered ceiling and quiet palette continue the understated charm.

Classic Lines

This fireplace view of designer Skip Sroka’s Washington D.C. living room reveals more of his secrets to creating an elegant space. The gold-leaf mirror above the fireplace is ornamented with a Greek-key motif, the grandfather of classic patterns. (Think the opposite of trendy.) The mirror does more than introduce classic lines, however. It also swings out to reveal a flat-screen TV. This kind of cleverly concealed hard-working function provides one more clue to the meaning of elegant decorating. Efficiency. (Apple products’ efficiency makes them the most elegant in their industry. The same rules apply to both interior and industrial design.) The entire fireplace presentation is refined through the symmetrical balance of the mirror between a pair of antique sconces.

see also : Minimalist Modern Living Room Designs

Cozy Repose in the Living Room

A surfeit of square footage thankfully is not essential to an elegant design, as this cozy living room in the Atlanta home of designer Lori Tippins proves. In fact, the human scale of the space contributes to its elegance, for design is as much about how a space lives as it is about how it looks. Here beauty begins with the bones of the room. Pairs of French doors flank a small antique marble fireplace for a full flow of natural light, symmetrical balance, and pleasing proportions. The trumeau above the fireplace is a major player in getting the right proportions, drawing the eye all the way up to the same height as the curtain rods. (It’s also gorgeous!) These, too, are placed high on the walls, nearly a foot above the doors to skim just beneath the extra-thick crown moldings. Decorative elements are few but fine. The pair of floor lamps, for instance, were converted from gilded iron candlesticks. The vertical border on the draperies introduces color and pattern in an exquisitely subtle fashion.

A Room with Warmth

In New York’s renowned Kips Bay Decorator Showhouse, designer Noel Jeffrey went against trend by allowing the living room’s original dark-stained woodwork to have its say. And it is the language of elegance. By not painting the lovely paneled walls and fireplace, Jeffrey allowed the space to bask in the warmth of the wood’s rich grain. He underscored that warmth with creamy furniture upholsteries, a white rug, and billowy beige silk draperies that ensure a dramatic contrast between dark and light.

Architectural Elegance

Inspiration for the bright white living room in this Seattle home was the Hamptons house of Diane Keaton in the movie Something’s Gotta Give. That clean, almost effortless look of the movie’s beloved home actually is as sophisticated as it is simple.  As interpreted here, it’s a crispness that emanates from the architecture. A deeply coffered ceiling works in tandem with the careful gridwork of shelving that flanks the fireplace to define the space in bold, linear strokes. Symmetrical balance extends to both the architecture and the clean-lined furniture to impose formal structure on an informal, feel-good style. So just two words to remember: clean-lined and balanced.

Best of Blues

When sophistication is the design goal for a seaside home, it pays to pause before bathing the living room in blues. “You have to test them to discover the ones that read sophisticated and not silly,” says designer Jack Fhillips, who did precisely that in the living room he designed for the Shippan Designer Showhouse in Stamford, Connecticut. A pale, almost Prussian blue painted on the walls reads as Old World elegant, especially brushing against white-painted dentil crown moldings. A white silk tufted sofa commands the conversation area with a formality that’s made approachable by a pair of comfy blue club chairs.

A Polished Palette

The large living room in this DC Design House (Washington, D.C.) exudes elegance with a deftly played palette that keeps all parts of the space in harmony. A tasteful mix of icy blue, ivory, yellow, white, and khaki creates the polished look. A large table in front of the fireplace divides the space into two conversation areas, and its yellow-and-white cotton striped skirt introduces a sunny spirit that’s essential for a room so large to feel livable. Matching sisal rugs define both sides of the room, and their Greek-key edges are banded in yellow to plant the palette underfoot.

Lovely and Light Living Room

Making the right decorating decision sometimes means doing nothing at all. When a living room like the one in this East Hampton house is blessed with beautiful French doors and an abundance of light, a smart designer knows to leave well enough alone: Keep the windows undressed. Designer Larry Laslo did just that. He also enhanced the architecture’s airiness with a monochromatic palette of soft pearl and sand with dark wood accents. elegant living room

Best Designs of Green Living Room  - When it comes to choosing the right colors for the living room, neutral colors  are always the most common ones. However,  neutrals, like white, gray, beige and maybe even black,can be paired with other colors too. For instance, with some green shades. Green is definitely a good color for your living room, because it will make it look more cozy and relaxed. Today, we have made a photo collection of several Cozy Green Living Room Designs, to show you how you can decorate your living room with the various shades of green.

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Green is a color that symbolizes calmness, prosperity and richness. It can be found in various shades, form light ones, like lime green to darker ones, like emerald. The lighter shades can give the room a calm and warm look, while the darker shades, like emerald will give the room a touch of luxury and glamour. The various shades of green can be combined with the neutral colors but also they can be combined with shades of yellow as well as with some shades of blue. 

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When combining yellow with green, use a mellow yellow shade for the backdrop and a vivacious green as a secondary hue.It all depends from your choice of how you will decorate your room with some green shades. But we advice you that if you choose the walls to be green, then to go for some white or beige or maybe even grey sofa design. And if you want to have a green sofa into your living room, then you should go for some neutral colored walls and then maybe add some green accessories in the room, like curtains, pictures etc. Scroll down now to see our choice of green living room designs and choose if you will want to add some green shades into your living room. Enjoy!

So, would like to decorate your living room with some shades of green? If you do then we advice you not to over do it, but to combine it with some neutral colors, or maybe with yellow and blue shades. Green shades can definitely give the room a touch of calmness and prosperity, so you will not be wrong if you choose to decorate your living room with green shades. And if green is not the color that you want to see into your living room, don’t worry but stay up to date with us because we are constantly updating many interior design ideas, so that you can find all you need for your home decor at one place. Best Designs of Green Living Room 

Living room interior design ideas - A good interior designer is often much more than just an interior design expert, as Amy Lau demonstrates over and over again with her beautifully composed living room designs. She is clearly influenced by modernism and her passion for abstract art but her designs are so different it is only their refined details and degree of internal consistency that show them to be the work of the same interior designer.

Also as is the case with many successful designers, Amy does much more than just design interiors – she also has her own limited product line and is often asked to speak or display at colleges, auctions, museums and other places and events. She has been featured in the New York Times, Post and Metropolitan magazine.

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Why is it so hard to find a good interior designer? Perhaps too many of them are too focused simply on interior design and not the big picture. Amy also serves on various advisory boards, has participating in design-related publications and advises clients on collecting art. In short, her aesthetic interests range beyond mere home decoration.

So what can you take away from someone like Amy, even if you cannot afford to hire someone of her caliber? There is a lot to be said for taking the wide-angle view on design and thinking about how you can integrate various parts of an interior composition. No single element stands out in her works – it is about the harmony of parts, the assemblage of related materials, colors, shapes and textures to create a holistic and complete interior design.